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title: Why do adult seat belts not fit most 9-year-olds? — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do adult seat belts not fit most 9-year-olds? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why do adult seat belts not fit most 9-year-olds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** adult seat belts · **What happens:** do, not fit · **To what, where:** 9 year olds

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t7:1
# text = Why do adult seat belts not fit most 9-year-olds?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
3	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	olds	old	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | adult seat belts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **fit** | present | adult seat belts | 9 year olds |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are too short to reach a child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t7:o1:1
# text = They are too short to reach a child
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent child=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are made for adults and sit on the neck and tummy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t7:o2:1
# text = They are made for adults and sit on the neck and tummy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  | for adults | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for adult=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | the neck and tummy |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children are too heavy for them and would break them in a sudden stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t7:o3:1
# text = Children are too heavy for them and would break them in a sudden stop
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | for them *= they*; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | would | Children *not said here* | Children *= child* |  | a sudden stop |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They only work in the front seat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t7:o4:1
# text = They only work in the front seat
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  |  | in the front seat | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in seat=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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